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The balancing stems from an inverted-pendulum problem, and that's something that's reasonably well understood in robotics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum Of course …

From what I can tell the writer is arguing that abstractions and encapsulations are wasteful of resources. The author claims that this is an inherent problem of abstractions and a …

It's a bladeless fan, not a fanless fan. It works using an impeller in the base and it feeds the air through a thin gap in an annulus shaped aerofoil. Strictly speaking you could a…

It'd give somewhat better traction but at the same time you increase the likelihood of stalling your motors. How does the machine know if the motors are stalling because there's so…

Haven't got a ruler to hand but it's about 4-5 inches. It's not very wide compared to others, hence why it looks tall.

The innovation is mostly in using the monoscopic 360 degree camera in such a way that it can do SLAM.

I tend to try and avoid "the zone" because I'll often find I'm holding too many ideas in my head rather than in the code and as such I'm not expressing myself well in code. I used …

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It verifies that you're actually connected to the server and it is listening to you rather than just some dumb box that keeps nodding and replying with "OK" with glazed over eyes r…

But it's not just HTML and CSS - you need to create a completely new user journey because you can't make asynchronous requests to the server. In some instances you may even need to…

I've been at a Hackathon for the last 15 hours and we've cobbled together a text message service that you can ask questions to and it responds in the style of Yoda. It's imaginativ…

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I am reminded of the Henry Ford quote "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." The design idioms seen in Gnome 2 and Windows 7 are essentially …

It's not just prestige though, it's also legitimacy. Scientific journals have formal peer review and it is this process that is supposed to ensure that papers that get published ar…